Lubricating compound.



UNITED STAES PATENT GFFIGE. CHESTER COMSTOCK, OF i30 1LYN NEW YORK.

LUBRIICATING COMPOUND.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1905.

Application filed February 28, 1905. Serial No. 247,659.

To all who/'12 it may concern:

Be it known that I, Oi-rns'rnn (JoMsTooK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LubricatingCompounds, of which. the following is a specification.

The invention has reference to a compound which serves as an efficientand economical lubricant adapted for use in all classes of work andwhich can be vended in granular or powdered form, so that the same maybe used in c mbination with a fluid.

It is a design of the invention to provide a compound in which anon-liquid lubricant- In one of its specific forms the compoundcomprehends the admixture of soft soap in about one part to about eightparts of the lubricant, the soft soap operating as an intermediary orvehicle for the fluid which is imparted through the lubricant.

This compound will in practice be used by causing water to flow along asurface of a mass of this compound when contained in some suitable cupor receptacle, either by causing the water to be dropped onto the massor be associated therewith in any other suitable in anner.

One of the important features of this inven. tion is that the compoundmay be put up in a powdered state and that particles or granules of suchpowder may be carried to the parts to be lubricated in predetermined andin suitable quantities, whereby efiicient results in Iubi ication may beobtained.

Having thus described the invention, 1 claim 1. A powdered lubricatingcompound comprising graphite mixed with soft soap, said graphite beingseveral times in excess of the soap, whereby to leave the lubricant in apowdered state.

2. A lubricating compound comprising graphite in eight parts and softsoap in onepart, said compound being in powdered form. Signed at Nos. 9to Murray street, in the city, county, and State of New York, this thday of February, 1905.

CHESTER COMSTOCK. l/Vitnesses' F nn). W. BARNAOLO, J'oI-IN O. SEIFERT.

